ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,794, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extensive recovery point management using tags" was invented by Abhishek Gupta (Vasundhara Ghaziabad, India), Ajaykumar Rajubhai Bhammar (Gujarat, India), Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava (Bihar, India), Kai Tan (Cary, N.C.), Naveen Kumar (Karnataka, India), Pranab Patnaik (Cary, N.C.) and Ramya Uthamarajan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique enables coordination of unrelated software components to facilitate extensive recovery point management on a snapshot or recovery point through the use of a flexible tag structure. The tag is organized and ar...